6th Annual Meeting - Leipzig, 19/20 March 2013

The Kick-off meeting of SOPRAN III (which was
also the 6thSOPRAN Annual Meeting) was hosted by the
Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung (TROPOS) and took place in Leipzig on 19/20 March 2013. More than 50 scientists came together to present their recent
findings and discuss future activities. The first day saw overview talks by Ina
Tegen and Thomas Müller (both from TROPOS) as well as Hermann Bange (GEOMAR) followed
by two "Young Scientist Highlight Presentations" of Steffen
Fuhlbrügge (GEOMAR) and Khanneh Fomba (TROPOS). During the poster session on
Tuesday afternoon more than 40 posters were presented and sparked many lively
discussions about the presented results. The oral and poster presentations covered
the broad thematic spectrum of SOPRAN incl. measurements from atmospheric/ocean
observatories at the Cape Verde Islands, results from SOPRAN cruises to the
tropical Atlantic Ocean/Mauritanian upwelling and the upwelling off Peru, studies
of the air-sea gas exchange in the Heidelberg Aeolotron, CO2 enrichment
experiments, halocarbon production and emissions as well as aerosol chemistry
and physics. On Wednesday morning the upcoming activities during the next three
years of SOPRAN III were introduced by the Theme leaders and discussed in
detail in working groups. The 7thSOPRAN Annual Meeting will be
hosted by the University of Bremen in March 2014.

The participants of the SOPRAN III Kick-Off Meeting in Leipzig are
wondering about the local effects of a wet deposition called snow.